$206 million cash
Authorities confiscated more than $200 million in U.S. currency from methamphetamine producers in one of this city’s ritziest neighborhoods, they said Friday, calling it the largest drug cash seizure in history.
The seizure reflected the vast scope of an illegal drug trade linking Asia, Mexico and the United States, officials said. Two of the seven people arrested Thursday at a faux Mediterranean villa in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood were Chinese nationals.
…Mexican officials said the cash seized was mostly in U.S. $100 bills and weighed at least 4,500 pounds.
…U.S. officials said that, if confirmed, the cash seizure would be several times larger than any other made from drug traffickers. A spokesman for the Mexican attorney general’s office said that experts were still analyzing the $205.6 million in cash to check for counterfeits but that the bills appeared to be legitimate.
From the LA Times.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Wow…The possibilities are endless with that much cash…I think they should donate it to a charity or they could just give it to me!…lol….
March 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Wow…I have never seen tat much money but i can thin abt it well i think Kimmie is ri8 tat they shud donate it to a charity